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AQA GCSE Geography 8035
Climate Change
Coastal Landscapes in the UKUK landscape option
Topic overviewWaves and coastal processes: weathering, mass movement, erosion, transport and depositionCoastal landforms of erosion and depositionIdentifying landforms on a stretch of UK coastlineCoastal management: hard and soft engineering, and a UK schemeManaging the Holderness coast at Mappleton
Cold EnvironmentsLiving world option
Ecosystems
EnergyResource option
FoodResource option
Geographical Applications: Fieldwork Enquiry
Topic overviewChoosing an enquiry question, its theory and its sourcesRisk assessment in fieldworkPrimary and secondary data, and sampling methodsJustifying your data collection methodsChoosing and using presentation methodsDescribing, analysing and explaining fieldwork resultsAnomalies in fieldwork dataDrawing conclusions from an enquiryEvaluating an enquiry: problems, limitations and missing dataHow reliable were your conclusions?
Geographical Skills
Topic overviewAtlas maps: coordinates, distributions and patternsReading thematic maps for physical and human associationsOS maps: scale, grid references, distance and directionOS maps: gradient, contours and landscape featuresOS maps: relief, cross sections and drawing inferencesOS maps: transects, landscape description and human activityComparing maps, sketch maps and photographsDescribing landscapes from photographs, and annotating themChoosing and constructing the right graph or chartCompleting choropleth, isoline, dot, desire-line and flow mapsReading population pyramids, choropleth and flow-line mapsNumber, scale, proportion and ratio, and designing data sheetsDrawing conclusions from numerical dataAverages, spread, percentages and correlationSpotting weaknesses in how data is presentedUsing maps, fieldwork data and GIS as evidenceUsing imagery, written, visual and graphical sourcesUsing numerical and statistical information as evidenceFraming an enquiry and writing about itBuilding an argument and reaching a conclusionIssue evaluation: stakeholders, options and a justified decision
Glacial Landscapes in the UKUK landscape option
Hot DesertsLiving world option
Resource Management
River Landscapes in the UKUK landscape option
Tectonic Hazards
The Changing Economic World
Topic overviewClassifying development, and how it is measuredWhy measures fall short, the Demographic Transition Model, and causes of uneven developmentThe consequences of uneven developmentClosing the development gap, and tourism as a strategyA rapidly developing country: change, industry, aid and impactsNigeria: a newly emerging economyEconomic futures in the UKUK economic change: named examples
Tropical Rainforests
UK Physical Landscapes
Urban Issues and Challenges
Topic overviewGlobal urbanisation: patterns, trends and what drives themThe rise of megacitiesA major city in a poorer or emerging country, and planning for the urban poorRio de Janeiro: growth, opportunities and challengesThe UK's urban population and a major UK cityBristol: urban change in a major UK cityAn urban regeneration projectSustainable urban living and urban transport
WaterResource option
Weather Hazards
Topic overviewGlobal atmospheric circulation: pressure belts and surface windsWhere tropical storms form, and whyThe structure of a tropical storm, and the effect of climate changeThe effects of and responses to tropical stormsReducing the effects of tropical stormsWeather hazards in the UKAn extreme weather event in the UK, and evidence of more extreme weather
Natural Hazards
- 1 subtopics
- 6 things to know
- Paper 1
What Natural Hazards covers
Natural Hazards is examined in Paper 1, Living with the physical environment. It covers what a natural hazard is, and what affects hazard risk.
Where it is assessed
Paper 1
Living with the physical environment, 35% of the GCSE.
Check the AQA specification ↗The 1 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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Why does hazard risk vary from place to place, and how do wealth and the size of an event change it?
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What is a natural hazard?
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What turns a natural hazard into a natural disaster?
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Into which two broad groups are natural hazards most often divided?
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What is a tectonic hazard, and name two examples.
Take Natural Hazards further
The same content, four other ways.
Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Natural hazard vs Natural disaster
Natural hazard: an event with the potential to cause death, injury or damage. Natural disaster: an event actually happening where people live and causing serious loss.
Tectonic hazard vs Atmospheric hazard
Tectonic hazard: a threat caused by movement of the Earth's plates. Atmospheric hazard: a threat caused by conditions and processes in the air.
Magnitude vs Frequency
Magnitude: how large or powerful an event is. Frequency: how often events of that kind happen.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
What is a natural hazard?
Model answer
A natural event or process that has the potential to cause death, injury or damage to people and their property.
- 2
What turns a natural hazard into a natural disaster?
Model answer
The event actually happening where people live and causing serious loss of life, injury or destruction.
- 3
Why would a violent volcanic eruption on an uninhabited island not normally be counted as a natural hazard?
Model answer
Because there are no people or property there for it to threaten, so it poses no danger to anyone.
- 4
Into which two broad groups are natural hazards most often divided?
Model answer
Tectonic hazards, caused by movement inside the Earth, and atmospheric hazards, caused by conditions in the atmosphere.
- 5
What is a tectonic hazard, and name two examples.
Model answer
A hazard caused by movement of the Earth's tectonic plates, such as an earthquake or a volcanic eruption.
- 6
Where do atmospheric hazards originate, and name two of them.
Model answer
In conditions and processes within the atmosphere; tropical storms and droughts are two examples.
What is inside Levo
Six ways to work the same material.
Natural Hazards revision questions
- What does Natural Hazards cover in AQA GCSE Geography?
- 1 subtopics: what a natural hazard is, and what affects hazard risk. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Natural Hazards organised?
- By the AQA 8035 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
Every question in Natural Hazards, on a schedule.
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